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bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings
From: |
Alan Mackenzie |
Subject: |
bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings |
Date: |
23 Apr 2015 12:27:20 -0000 |
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tin/2.2.0-20131224 ("Lochindaal") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/10.1-RELEASE (amd64)) |
In article <mailman.1407.1429745888.904.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> you wrote:
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> So if we want this to become our default, we need changes in
>> ispell.el, to replace ? with ' before we sent it to the speller.
> Although a change like that might make sense, it appears to go beyond what's
> needed for doc strings. I was thinking of something more modest: change
> Emacs
> so that if you're editing an Elisp or C string, then when you type
> `like-this'
> it's by default changed to ?like-this?.
No. Please don't do this. I hate it when proprietary programs pull this
trick. If you type a self-inserting character, that is what you should get.
Not all uses of ` and ' in strings are for quoting.
Also there are complicated repercussions for searching and matching, and
probably quite a few other things, too.
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
- bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings, (continued)
- bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/04/23
- bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings, Ivan Shmakov, 2015/04/21
- bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/04/21
- bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings, Ivan Shmakov, 2015/04/21
- bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/04/21
bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings, Drew Adams, 2015/04/20
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- bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings,
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